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Karnataka Housing Minister's Transport Firm Receives Notice in ₹2,000-Crore GST Fraud It Was Apparently Unaware Of
Bengaluru's Commercial Tax Department Intelligence Wing, while unwinding a ₹2,384-crore network of 127 shell companies generating fraudulent GST invoices for...
Haryana Arrested a Professor for a Facebook Post, Investigated for Months, Filed a Chargesheet — Then Told the Supreme Court It Would Not B...
In May 2025, Haryana Police arrested political science professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad over social media posts about Operation Sindoor. The Supreme Court grant...
Andhra Pradesh Displaced These Families in 2009 for a Dam That Is Still Under Construction. Seventeen Years Later, the Families Are Still W...
When the Polavaram Irrigation Project arrived in Papikondalu, tribal families were displaced and resettled at Koruturu village in Eluru district and handed 1...
Chandigarh Demolished Modified Housing Board Flats, Got Stopped by a High Court, Then Formed a Committee to Study Whether the Demolitions H...
For months, Chandigarh Housing Board officials went building to building, measuring and issuing demolition orders to flat owners who had made modifications t...
Garo Hills Council Issued a Notification. Violence Followed. A Commission Has Been Given Six Months to Connect the Dots.
The Garo Hills Autonomous District Council — constitutionally established for tribal self-governance — issued a notification barring non-tribal candidates fr...
PM Asked India to Use Less Petrol. Sikkim's CM Immediately Slashed His Own Motorcade in Half.
When PM Modi asked the nation to drive less amid oil price volatility from the West Asia crisis, most states issued polite advisories. Sikkim's government we...
Goa Set Up a Tribunal to Hear Your Complaints Against the Government. The Government Has Not Appointed Its President in 11 Years.
The Goa Administrative Tribunal — the body Goans are supposed to appeal to when the government wrongs them on land, revenue, and tenancy matters — has had no...
Chhattisgarh Paid ₹115 Crore in Overtime to Workers Who Never Worked Any of It
Between 2019-20 and 2023-24, the Chhattisgarh State Marketing Corporation Ltd (CSMCL) disbursed ₹115 crore in overtime payments to private manpower agencies....
Chandigarh Has 12 IAS Secretaries for 12 Lakh People and Zero Officers Below Secretary Rank to Actually Do Anything
A Government of India notification dated January 3, 2025 reveals that Chandigarh has 11 sanctioned IAS posts — of which only five were meant to sit at Secret...
NTA Hired Professors to Set the NEET Paper. The Professors Set the Paper. Then They Leaked It.
The National Testing Agency asked Professor P.V. Kulkarni, a chemistry lecturer at Dayanand Medical College in Latur and one of its own paper-setting panelis...
India's Disciplinary System Moved Swiftly to Fire an IAS Officer — the Process Took Only 18 Years
Padma Jaiswal, a 2003-batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer, was dismissed from service in May 2026 for misappropriating approximately ₹28 lakh during her 2007–08 po...
Tripura Fights West Asia's Fuel Crisis by Ordering Half Its Government to Stay Home on Alternating Weeks
On May 13, 2026, the Tripura General Administration Department issued a memorandum requiring that only 50% of Group C and D government employees attend offic...
Six Extensions, One Resignation, Zero Pages: Manipur's Violence Commission Has Until November to Produce Nothing
On May 14, 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs granted the Commission of Inquiry investigating Manipur's ethnic violence its sixth extension, pushing the dead...
Nagaland's PWD Built a 22 km Road from Satheri to Chepokita on Paper in 2014. The CAG Found the Paper in 2026. Nobody Found the Road.
In February 2014, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways approved ₹21.70 crore to upgrade 22 km of road from Satheri to Chepokita in Phek District under...
Sikkim Built a National Highway Retaining Wall on Loose Soil. Officials Arrived, Measured the Ruins, and Prescribed a Tarpaulin.
On May 4, 2026, a joint inspection team arrived at Silting Dara on the Luing-Ranka Road in Gangtok district after a complaint from a local resident. What the...
Assam Ran a National Exam to Find Its Best Forest Officer. He Ranked First. He Was Charging ₹6,000 Per Truck Per Month.
The Assam Public Service Commission exists to identify the best minds for the state's most important roles. In the 2020 Forest Service exam, that distinction...
CBI Raids Punjab's Anti-Corruption Bureau. The Bureau Was Accepting Bribes. The Bribe Included a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7.
The CBI trapped Vikas alias "Vicky" Goyal and his son Raghav Goyal on May 11, 2026, catching them accepting Rs 13 lakh in cash plus a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7...
Andaman Administration Mobilizes Navy, Police, Forest Guards, and Coast Guard to Break a Guinness World Record. The Record Is for Flags Und...
Lieutenant Governor D.K. Joshi presided over the operation at Radhanagar Beach, Swaraj Dweep (Havelock Island) on May 2, 2026: 200+ divers drawn from the Ind...
Meghalaya's Nine-Year Pension Court Case Produced a Scheme So Bad the Government Let Everyone Opt Out Before Anyone Retired
The Meghalaya government's new Centralised Provident Fund scheme for approximately 30,000 deficit grant-in-aid school and college staff, notified in April 20...
Tripura's Government Guest House in Kolkata Serves Medical Patients Food So Bad That 80% Is Discarded — and Makes Sure There's Nowhere Else...
Tripura Bhavan in Kolkata is the Tripura state government's accommodation facility for residents who travel to the city — most of them patients and their fam...
Mizoram Lost Rs 440 Crore in Approved Projects, Then Its CM Told the Assembly the State Ranked 4th in India — in a Scheme With No Rankings
At a press conference at the Aizawl Press Club on April 4, 2026, MNF MLA Robert Romawia Royte detailed what two years of SASCI mismanagement looked like in p...
Goa Declares Smart Meters Mandatory, Then Spends a Week Being Corrected by Parliament, the Supreme Court, and Its Own Human Rights Commissi...
In May 2026, Power Minister Sudin Dhavalikar and Electricity Department Nodal Officer Mayur Hede publicly assured consumers that Goa's Rs 900-crore smart pre...
After 38 Days in Custody, the Man Who Organised Messi in Kolkata Has a Verdict: He Regrets Organising Messi in Kolkata
The GOAT Tour 2025 at Kolkata Salt Lake Stadium offered fans paying Rs 12,000-20,000 per ticket a meaningful encounter with Lionel Messi. What materialised i...
Uttarakhand Rules Citizens May Ask If IAS Officers Have Corruption Cases Against Them — The Departments Under Investigation Will Decide Whe...
The Uttarakhand State Information Commission ruled that citizens are entitled to know whether corruption cases have been registered against IAS officers — a...
Mizoram Created a Committee to Stop Departments Ignoring Oversight. The Departments Ignored It. The Committee Is Now Threatening Them.
In 2024, Mizoram constituted the State Project Monitoring Committee (MSPMC), chaired by Chief Minister Lalduhoma himself, with a singular mandate: ensure gov...